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HR 5600 111th Congress House

Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2010

Official title: To make permanent the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided educational assistance.

Introduced: July 30, 2010 See on congress.gov
Taxation Employee benefits and pensionsIncome tax exclusionStudent aid and college costs
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Jun 24, 2010
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jun 24, 2010
Introduced in House
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 Latest action June 24, 2010

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2010 - Renders the general terminating date (i.e., December 31, 2010) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 inapplicable to provisions of that Act that extended the exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance from the gross income of employees (thus making such tax exclusion permanent).

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1
Perriello, Thomas
· Sep 29, 2010
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Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Jul 30, 2010
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5600: Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2010. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-5600/
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"H.R. 5600: Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2010." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-5600/.
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H.R. 5600, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-5600/.
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